Physician, spiritual, 360, 394; cures by contraries, 378.
Piety, the chief good, 369; abides, 451.
Pilgrimages, 340; to the dunghill of Job, 371; use of, 467.
Pilot, 408; his chief concern, 399; in storms, 446, 483.
Place, importance of, for the delivery of the law, 394.
Plato, 402, n.; on the human body, 413, n.; on the motions of heavenly bodies, 419, n.
Players, deprived of the holy Communion, 439, n.
Pleasure depends on relish, 352; present diminished, pain in view, 450.
Plural number, use of, 481, n.
Pole, balancing, 470.
Poor, God's care for, 341; represent Christ for us, 349; trust in God, 351; relish food and
sleep, 352.
Porch, of church for penitents, 472, n.
Porphyrio, a bird greatly esteemed, 408, n.
Porters, cajoled for favours, 474.
Pot, the golden, of the temple, 467.
Poverty, a benefit and protection, 342, 353, 372; of Elijah, 353; of Job, 442; alleged to excuse
almsgiving, 475.
Power, of injuring the just, why granted, 386; taken away easily, 451; of judges, 454.
Practice, laxity of, causes death to be feared, 375; a matter of choice and endeavours, 428;
right, impossible without fear of God, 439; the season of, is the test of religion, 446;
without questioning, 447; of Saints proves Scripture, 455.
Praise, of one another beside the purpose, 380; to be suspected, 441; of men from reconcili-
ation, 479.
Prayer, the only resource in trouble, 346; power of, 351; recommended, 354, 356; united
powerful, 356; of women, 356; to be persevered in, 362; inattention at, 394, 472; natural
as a way of assisting the distressed, 426; penitential, a special kind, 427, n.; fruit of,
never lost, 451; most needful after deliverance, 452; for fellows in affliction, 458; the
Lord's, taught in Baptism, 355, n.; how entitled, 478, n.; not to be used by halves, 478.
Preaching, suits not extreme distress, 346; may solace the suffering, 346; to be heard for
improvement, 347; of the Gospel not bound as the preacher, 450.
Precepts, three proposed to be learnt, 363; moral without the reason, 421; of the Gospel
better carried in heart than on paper, 470.
Preservation of the world by God, 403.
Pride, 348; how to check, in the rich, 349; evil of, 350; spiritual, on account of good works,
337; remedied by considering the weakness of the body, 413, 417; preceded by ignorance,
421.
Priest, our wound to be shewn to, 360, n.; consoles the afflicted in adversity, 483.
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